Guadagnino had joined the project as a location scout, and eventually became sole director and co-producer. Ivory had been chosen to co-direct with Guadagnino, but stepped down in 2016. The film also stars actresses Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire Du Bois.ĭevelopment began in 2007 when producers Peter Spears and Howard Rosenman optioned the rights to Aciman's novel. Set in 1983 in northern Italy, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between a 17-year-old, Elio Perlman ( Timothée Chalamet), and Oliver ( Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio's father Samuel ( Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor. The film is the final instalment in Guadagnino's thematic "Desire" trilogy, after I Am Love (2009), and A Bigger Splash (2015). Its screenplay, by James Ivory, who also co-produced, is based on the 2007 novel of the same title by André Aciman. Call Me by Your Name (Italian: Chiamami col tuo nome) is a 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino.
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